Word: discreeter
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...fantastic, sweet, person, almost naive in her honesty," whom he met at Riverside. "People say you can't make long-distance relationships work. We made ours work, with phone calls and letters. I told her, 'I'm not a monk, I'm a Marine.' She told me to be discreet...
...Federal assistance should be made available to those workers who face the prospect of unemployment spells during the industry's transition to a more efficient production system. The recessionary effect that short-term drop in automobile sales might have on industries that depend on Detroit can be offset by discreet use of demand management policy...
...Poland is like a company that is no longer capable of selling its stock on the free market," complains a senior banker in Düsseldorf. "The problem goes beyond the banks. Poland is in default already." More discreet financiers might find that view extreme, but none would deny the gravity of Poland's economic and financial crisis...
...Administration, in contrast, has kept a discreet distance from those rather breathtaking assertions. Even Stockman's contention that the Government has no obligation to help Americans was quickly disavowed. Said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan: "I think Dave went a little too far in that statement. When people are in need or unemployed, they can expect that the Government will help them." Indeed, the Administration has concentrated on more reassuring defenses of its program: that its budget cuts preserve a "safety net" for the "truly needy," and that its proposal to slash all income tax rates by 30% over three...
...order to up its uraniun production figures, South Africa's government will have to expand its military presence--now 70,000 troops--in neighboring Namibia, where South Africa, Britain, and a number of more discreet governments get their uranium in defiance of United Nations sanctions. Not only does uranium mining perpetuate South Africa's domination of Namibia, it continues to be a means for oppressing Blacks at home...